“Dazzles you with the amazing change that is possible in one lifetime.
Additionally throughout the book, there are many horrible. of a remarkable life filled with pain and wisdom, hope and redemption.” - San Fracisco Chronicle By using the profanity and grammar Brown does, it gives the reader a more genuine look into her life. “ reflects now with insight and honesty on her experiences. 1 Sunday Times bestselling true story of Cupcake Brown: orphan, runaway, addict, a child turning tricks on the street until one morning on her journey through. Moving in its frankness, this is the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you’ll ever take. She stumbled into gangbanging, drug dealing, hustling, prostitution, theft, and, eventually, the best scam of all: a series of 9-to-5 jobs.Ī Piece of Cake is unlike any memoir you’ll ever read. Orphaned by the death of her mother and left in the hands of a sadistic foster parent, young Cupcake Brown learned to survive by turning tricks, downing hard liquor, and ingesting every drug she could find while hitchhiking up and down the California coast. There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, and homelessness.Ĭupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty.Īnd that’s when things got interesting. Her life is nothing short of a miracle.”- Chicago Sun-Times The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake.Change her life or die.īrutally frank and startlingly funny, A Piece of Cake is the remarkable true story of a resilient spirit who triumphed over the very worst that life could throw at her. Half-dressed and more than half-dead, she knew she had a choice. After one crack binge she woke up behind a dumpster.
Before long she had stumbled head first into a world of gangs and extreme violence. She fed her appetite for drink and drugs by selling the only thing she had. Moved from one disastrous placement to the next, like so many, she was neglected and sexually abused. 28, 2006 Harrowing, earnest autobiography takes readers on a tour from incomprehensible evil through unexpected kindness to eventual triumph. That's when things got really interesting.Ĭupcake was just eleven years old when, orphaned, she entered the child welfare system. A PIECE OF CAKE A MEMOIR by Cupcake Brown RELEASE DATE: Feb. Orphan, runaway, addict, all before she was twenty. This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake Brown. 'Dazzles you with the amazing change that is possible in one lifetime.' Washington Post The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling true story of Cupcake Brown: orphan, runaway, addict, a child turning tricks on the street until one morning on her journey through hell she woke up and knew she had to change her life or die.
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